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Even More Trenchant Analysis

Mar05

by David Bishop on 5th March 2008 at 00:01

Chapter: Denial is Stage One

└ Tags: Charlotte the critic, fantasy, Jack the novelist, open to interpretation, tropes, write, writer, writers, writing

Ride On

Apr30

by David Bishop on 30th April 2008 at 19:04

Chapter: St Michael the Secretive

└ Tags: accidental sexism, analysis, Charlotte the critic, clichés, doin' it, don't hate the player hate the game, don't kink-shame, empowering, familiar-looking characters, fantasy, feminism, feminist, having sex, having your post-modern cake and eating it, magic, Medieval, representation in the media, seduction, sex, sexuality, the male gaze, third wave feminism, tropes

Infodump

Aug15

by David Bishop on 15th August 2012 at 19:48

Chapter: Taking a Stand against Taking a Seat

Here is you comic for today.

└ Tags: actual writing advice, Charlotte the critic, exposition, fantasy, going number two, good advice, Jack the novelist, Jack the writer, poop, the deuce, toilet time, tropes, write, writer, writing

The Reviewer Compelled

Aug15

by David Bishop on 15th August 2016 at 04:30

Chapter: Failing the Bechdel Test

Characters: Charlotte, Jack

Ah, The Reviewer Compelled. I was talking last time about review shows on YouTube and elsewhere and the bizarre tendency of critics to work in narratives, recurring characters and continuity. This in turn has led to a few tropes becoming[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

└ Tags: analysis, blog, Charlotte the critic, cinema, criticism, critique, feminism, feminist, good movie, Jack has the priorities and restraint of a fifteen-year-old, malfunction, movie, movies, narrative, playing dress-up, review, reviews, robot, screenwriting, tropes, vlogging, write, writer, writing, YouTube